Category: daily drivel
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brokeback
I don’t know what I did to wrench my back, but whatever I did to it, it’s still pretty mad at me. I crawled into bed early last night, around eight-thirty, because my back felt best when I was lying flat on it. Sitting up, even in the recliner, was not making it feel better… Read.
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distraction and dissipation
Main goal today: Clean up the back porch. Tasks to complete in order to achieve that goal: Store the deck chairs and the hoses away in the garage attic. Store the cold frame in the garden shed. Take the composter down to the basement. Sweep the leaves off the deck. Goal: Achieved! Distractions along the… Read.
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fall colors
It’s raining golden leaves in Monona. I walked down to Crema Cafe to meet My Darling B for breakfast, then walked back to Our Humble O’Bode. Temps were in the mid 30s and leaves were raining down from the sky both ways. Maples seemed to be especially busy shedding their leaves. Read.
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moving on
This was my last day working at the offices of the Department of Safety and Professional Services, known as the Department of Regulation and Licensing when I was hired there a little more than three years ago. On Monday morning when My Darling B and I climb into the O-Mobile to start the commute to… Read.
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crappy govt web site
The government rolled out a crappy web site. That’s gotta be kind of typical, right? I mean, how many government web sites have you been to that were user-friendly? And how many of those crappy web sites has congress spent a whole week investigating? Seriously, those guys have way too much time on their hands. Read.
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summary
This Friday will be my last day at the office, so my coworkers organized a nice little pot luck dinner as a going-away for me. They booked a conference room and brought plenty of delicious goodies and we sat around the table for about an hour during the lunch break and shot the bull while… Read.
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stuff and nonsense
The first thing I did today, after I got out of bed and drank way too much coffee, was get fingerprinted so the Department of Transportation could do a background check on me, one of the conditions of being hired by them. Oh wait, did I mention that I got a new job? No? Well,… Read.
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political Godzilla
Sarah Palin? She just stomps around and makes noise. She’s a political Godzilla. – My Darling B Read.
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books as sharks
I do not believe that all books will or should migrate onto screens: as Douglas Adams once pointed out to me, more than 20 years before the Kindle turned up, a physical book is like a shark. Sharks are old: there were sharks in the ocean before the dinosaurs. And the reason there are still… Read.
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goat man
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